Fireplace Talk over EU-burgerschap en rechten van vrij verkeer
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“Citizenship of the Union is hereby established. Every person holding the nationality of a Member State shall be a citizen of the Union.”
Precisely 30 years ago with the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, a provision has been introduced into the European treaty system, which proclaimed the institutionalisation of a European citizenship. Initially considered as no more than a symbolic gesture, a “pie in the sky” as Hans Ulrich Jessurun d’Oliveira pointed out so sharply in an article published in 1995, Union Citizenship has evolved remarkably during the past decades.
This is the last event in the Fireplace Talk series dedicated to the 30th Anniversary of the Maastricht Treaty, organised by UM Campus Brussels. The discussion will focus on several aspects of European citizenship, its fundamental status, the relationship between European citizenship and the nationality of the Member States, and also European citizenship in times of serious crisis such as BREXIT and border closure during the pandemic.
Our guest speakers for the talk are Hildegard Schneider, Professor of International and European Law at Maastricht University, Martin Unfried, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility / ITEM, Gillian More, Legal Officer at the European Commission, and Sergio Carrera, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Justice and Home Affairs Unit at CEPS.
The event will be moderated by the Director of UM Campus Brussels, Prof. Mariolina Eliantonio and the Associate Director, Associate Prof. Paul Stephenson.
This event will be held fully online.
Guest Speakers
Hildegard Schneider
Prof. Dr. Hildegard Schneider holds a professorship in European Law at the universities of Maastricht (The Netherlands) and Hasselt (Belgium) and a Jean Monnet Chair in European Migration Law. Between September 2011 and December 2017, she served as Dean of the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University.
During the last three decades, she has been working specifically in the area of European Internal Market Law and European Migration Law concentrating on the free movement of persons (including the mobility of professionals and students), the concept of European citizenship, the recognition of diplomas. She conducted various studies concerning the position of Third Country Nationals (family members of EU citizens, legal migration, high-skilled and circular migration, asylum).
Martin Unfried
Martin Unfried is the Senior Researcher at the Institute for Transnational and Euregional Cross border Cooperation and Mobility / ITEM at the Maastricht University, Faculty of Law. Before his current position, he worked as an expert at the European Institute of Public Administration for nearly 25 years, in the field of EU environmental, regional and cross-border policies. He is involved in learning activities on EU affairs. He wrote many studies on regions and EU multi-level governance and developed a scoreboard of multi-level governance for the Committee of the Regions.
Gillian More
Gillian More has worked as a legal and policy officer for the European Commission since 2008. She started her career teaching EU law (Keele University and Europa Institute, University of Edinburgh), before moving to legal practice in 1995. She gained her first concrete experience of advising on EU and ECHR law at the AIRE (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe) Centre, before moving to the UK Government Legal Service in 1998.
Gillian currently works in the field of EU citizenship and free movement of persons. Over the last years in the European Commission she has worked on: the 2017 Commission Staff Working Document concerning the European Pillar of Social Rights; the free movement of persons and welfare aspects of the 2016 UK Settlement; the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons between the EU and Switzerland; Directive 2014/54/EU on the enforcement of the free movement of workers; social security aspects of the legal migration acquis; and was responsible for the 2012 Commission Communication on the External Dimension of EU Social Security Communication.
Sergio Carrera
Sergio Carrera is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Justice and Home Affairs unit at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). Sergio is also Visiting Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) in the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (Italy), Visiting Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po (France), and Honorary Professor at the School of Law in Queen Mary University of London (UK).
His main research interests are on EU justice and home affairs (JHA) law and Area of Freedom, Security and Justice policy, with particular focus on migration, asylum, citizenship and Schengen policies. His areas of expertise also cover EU criminal justice law and police cooperation, and their impact on data protection/privacy and the rights of the defence.